Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Give Him a Normal Life]]: Banagher's mother left her husband and took Banagher with her because she didn't want Banagher {{spoiler|to be caught up in the Vist Foundation's shady dealings.}} Can't really blame her.

* [[The Hero]]

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: He suffers through this quite a bit after Audrey tells him [[Refused By the Call|she doesn't need him]].

** {{spoiler|He goes through this again after learning he inadvertently killed Mr. Gilboa.}}

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Which only hurt him even more when he got [[Refused By the Call]] by his [[Protectorate]].

* [[Kid Hero]]

* [[The Messiah]]

* [[Necromancer]]: [[Dark Is Not Evil|As usual]] for a heroic Newtype, he can communicate with and draw power from the spirits of the dead. {{spoiler|Whilst recreating a small-scale version of the [[Mobile Suit Gundam Chars Counterattack|Axis Shock]] in Episode 5, he even gets a bit of help from Amuro Ray himself.}}

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Micott really likes Banagher, but he seems more interested in Audrey.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: {{spoiler|[[Tyke Bomb|Subverted]].}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His [[Missing Mom|mother]] dies prior to the story, and he is estranged from his [[Disappeared Dad|father]] {{spoiler|who dies in the first episode.}}

* [[Power Incontinence]]: {{spoiler|For folks like [[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Amuro]] and [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Kamille]], who gained their powers late in life, [[Mindlink Mates|Newtype connections]] are rare, precious, and above all ''voluntary'' things. Banagher collects them like headlice.}}

* [[Psychic Powers]]: {{spoiler|He was a very early-onset Newtype, which ended up shaping a great deal of [[The Dulcinea Effect|his]] [[The Messiah|personality]].}}

* [[The Quiet One]]: In comparison to his friends. But as seen from his interaction with Audrey, Banagher's actually pretty friendly.

* [[Refused By the Call]]: In episode one:

{{quote| '''Banagher:''' I don't care who you are! Just say that you need me, and I'll... Just tell me...<br />

* [[Say My Name]]: "Audrey!"

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* [[Troubled but Cute]]

* {{spoiler|[[Tyke Bomb]]: He started manifesting Newtype powers when he was very young, and was consequently being groomed as the Unicorn's pilot until his mother pulled him out of the Vist Foundation's clutches.}}

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: After {{spoiler|Daguza}}'s death in Episode 3. {{spoiler|He ends up getting Gilboa killed in the process.}}

* [[Wetware CPU]]: The Unicorn's Gundam form turns him into one whenever it activates. He's locked into his pilot seat, unable to move while the MS's combat AI takes over and hijacks his brain's [[Psychic Powers]] for itself.

** Banagher delivers this several times, towards Cardeas Vist when Industrial 7 is attacked, towards Audrey when she attempts to get Banagher to escape with her from the ''Nahael Argama'' and when she persuades Daguza to shoot her when her identity as {{spoiler|Mineva Lao Zabi}} is revealed, to Daguza (see below) for involving Audrey in the conflict, and finally to Full Frontal.

{{quote| '''Banagher:''' Well, if we're just children, then why is she your hostage? Is this how adults are supposed to behave? Does being older make this ''right?!''}}

* [[Bob Haircut]]

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: It's a very, ''very'' slow defrosting, mind you.

* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Princess]]}}

* [[Give Her a Normal Life]]: {{spoiler|In one of Haman Karn's rare [[Pet the Dog]] moments, she was sent to Earth as an ordinary schoolgirl at the end of the [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Gryps Conflict]], whilst a series of [[Body Double|Body Doubles]] covered for her on Axis. The deception was revealed at the end of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ]]'', but nobody was quite sure what had happened to the real Mineva... until now.}}

* [[Green Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[King Incognito]]}}

* [[Kuudere]]: Constantly zigzags between opening up to Banagher and giving him the cold shoulder.

* {{spoiler|[[Last of Her Kind]]}}

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Has shades of this.

* [[Meet Cute]]

* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Another thing she inherited from Haman. Not even getting a gun pointed at her head or having to jump out of a plane without a parachute will cause her to bat an eyelid.

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Protectorate]]: To Banagher.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: A fairly powerful Newtype. Given how Newtype powers work, it's implied to be one of the reasons why Banagher is [[The Dulcinea Effect|so keen on helping her]].

* [[Eighties Hair]]: It has become a meme in some circles.

* [[Freak Out]]: Suffers through a nervous breakdown {{spoiler|after witnessing all her friends get killed.}}

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: For Banagher.

* [[Ojou]]

* [[Princess Curls]]

 

=== Haro ===

 

* [[Legacy Character]]: Of a particularly meta sort; every UC TV series has had ''a'' Haro, but it's never the ''same'' Haro.

* [[Robot Buddy]]

* [[Series Mascot]]: Haro is iconic of Gundam as a whole, and UC Gundam in particular.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Abel to Martha's Cain.

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye]]}}

 

* [[The Lancer]]

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: His "good luck charm." It may have something to do with his family because Audrey seemed to recognize it.

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Courtesy of his jealousy towards Banagher, his rejection by Audrey, and the stress caused by being [[The Fatalist]] whilst stuck with the regular Newtype [[Dulcinea Effect]].

* [[The Captain]]: Of the ''Nahel Argama''.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

** Captain Mitas might be a [[Armchair Military|desk pilot]], but he's ''not'' stupid.

 

* [[All There in the Manual]]: His name.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Turns the tide of the fight at Torrington before the Tri-Stars even got there.

 

=== {{spoiler|Amuro Ray}} ===

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: His mask has red eyes {{spoiler|and his sinanju also shows a red eye when its face is half destroyed}}

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Cracks a small one before firing on the ''General Revil''.

 

=== Angelo Sauper ===

* [[Purple Eyes]]

* [[Purple Is Powerful]]: He pilots purple {{spoiler|his Rozen Zulu is even more powerful it took down lots of federation suits}}

 

=== Suberoa Zinnerman ===

 

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Particularly and especially Marida, who he was willing to launch a near-suicidal assault on the ''Nahael Argama'' whilst it was in Earth orbit for after she was captured by the EFSF.

* [[Badass Beard]]

* [[Badass Normal]]: No Newtype powers, and can't pilot a mobile suit worth a damn. Still gets the job done.

A Newtype woman who pilots the monstrous Kshatriya for the Sleeves with the rank Lieutenant Junior Grade. Rather [[The Stoic|stoic]] in most situations, she ''really'' [[Berserk Button|doesn't like]] Gundams, which sees her repeatedly pitting herself against the Unicorn. In reality, she is actually {{spoiler|Ple Twelve, one of Glemmy Toto's cyber newtype clones from the [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|First Neo-Zeon War]]}}.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Artificial Human]]}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Gundams, and things that look like Gundams. {{spoiler|It was almost certainly programmed in by Glemmy.}}

* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|As one of the Ple Two clones, after the war she became a child prostitute.}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: AND HOW!

* [[Freak Out]]: When she sees {{spoiler|her old [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|MP Qubeley]]}} in episode 4.

* {{spoiler|[[Irony]]: Her Ple programming and traumatic experiences in the First Neo Zeon War led her to try to attack anything looking like a Gundam on sight... which became a bit awkward when the Vist Foundation had her ''pilot'' one. Needless to say, realising this was a big factor in breaking her brainwashing.}}

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Her suit the Khsatriya is very fast, tough and hard hitting, but pales in comparison to [[Super Prototype|the Banshee]].

*** [[Call Back|Which also happened in]] ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.

** She has an even bigger one when she suddenly realizes she's no longer in control of the Kshatriya's own funnels.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Sees herself as nothing more than a tool to be employed by whoever her master happens to be, {{spoiler|mostly because that is, in fact, what she was designed as.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Rape As Backstory]]: She was a prostitute.}}

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: One of the more positively-portrayed (and less creepy) examples - Zinnerman considers her a replacement for his dead daughter, Marie, and is a loving, if somewhat stern, [[Parental Substitute]] to her.

* {{spoiler|[[Sex Slave]]}}

* [[Starter Villain]]

* [[The Stoic]]

The helmsman of the camouflaged freighter Garencieres. At first glance Flaste has an air of unapproachability, but his personality is actually more like that of a big brother, and he has the full trust of the crew. He is also an old acquaintance of Captain Zinnerman, and supports him well as the second in command of the Garencieres crew.

 

* [[Eighties Hair]]: Hey Flaste, nice sideburns!

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: He doesn't like civilian casualties one bit. Especially underlined by his reaction to the Shamblo's rampage in Episode 4.

A member of the Garencieres crew. Gilboa has a friendly demeanor, and is the father of three children.

 

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Intercepted Unicorn's beam attack for Sinanju with his Geara Zulu.}}

* [[Malicious Slander]]: Possibly. See the entry on the main page.

 

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]

* [[Axe Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Not that her malfunctioning psycommu helped.}}

* [[Death By Adaptation]]: In contrast to the anime, her father and brothers were still alive at this point in the original novels, and pilots of the Shamblo alongside her.

 

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]

* [[Morality Chain]]: To Loni. {{spoiler|Malfunctioning Psycommu aside}}, It's only a combination of his concern for her and his being her superior officer that keeps the bitter and angry pilot of a massive Mobile Armor from going [[Axe Crazy]] every time she sorties. {{spoiler|Even his dying thoughts still manages to make Loni snap out of her psychotic episode.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me]]: In Episode 4, he attempts to self-destruct his mobile suit by destroying its reactor with his rifle to destroy the Federation suits attacking him. One of them kills him before he succeeds.}}

 

* [[Big Bad]]: [[Big Bad Ensemble|The second candidate]], alongside Frontal.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

* [[The Baroness]]: The Rosa Klebb type - [[Ambition Is Evil|ambitious]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]], and sharp, with a taste for cruelty, {{spoiler|as Marida found out.}}

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